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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">PyScripter 
	offers the ability to define External Tools that can be run independently or 
	interact with the IDE editor.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is great flexibility in specifying 
	such tools allowing you to integrate your favorite Python utilities or command-line 
	programs tightly with PyScripter.</span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">You can define 
	or modify external tools through the &quot;Tools|Configure Tools..&quot; menu 
	option. The definition of the tools is persisted to the PyScritper.ini file.</span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">In the above 
	dialog box you can modify existing external tools or create new ones using the 
	the External Tool properties dialog shown below:<br></span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">A large number 
	of options are available in the External Tool properties dialog which are explained 
	below:</span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"><b>Tool Configuration 
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				Caption</span></font></div>
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				The caption of the Menu Item corresponding to this tool</span></font></div>
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				Description</span></font></div>
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				The hint of the Menu Item corresponding to this tool</span></font></div>
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				Application</span></font></div>
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				The full name of file to execute</span></font></div>
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				Parameters</span></font></div>
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				Command-line parameters</span></font></div>
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				Working Directory </span></font></div>
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				The working directory</span></font></div>
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				Shortcut</span></font></div>
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				Menu shortcut for the external tool</span></font></div>
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				Context </span></font></div>
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				Specifies when can the tool be executed&nbsp; </span></font>
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				Enabled, </span></font></div>
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				File, </span></font></div>
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				Python File</span></font></div>
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				Available</span></font></div>
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				Save Files</span></font></div>
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				Save files option.&nbsp; Possible values</span></font></div>
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				File, </span></font></div>
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				Files</span></font></div>
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				Standard Input</span></font></div>
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				Feed standard input to the running process. Possible values:&nbsp;
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				No standard input</span></font></div>
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				at cursor</span></font></div>
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				line</span></font></div>
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				file</span></font></div>
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				Standard output</span></font></div>
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				Send standard output to</span></font></div>
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				<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; color: #010101">&middot;</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">None:&nbsp; 
				Do nothing</span></font></div>
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				word at cursor</span></font></div>
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				current line</span></font></div>
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				selection</span></font></div>
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				active file&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font></div>
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				in new file</span></font></div>
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				Parse Messages</span></font></div>
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				Parse File/Line/LinePos info from output and put it in the Messages 
				Window.&nbsp; Useful for integrating command-line tools.</span></font></div>
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				Message Format</span></font></div>
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				Regular expression for parsing messages.&nbsp; You should use the 
				predefined grep expression macros $[FileName], $[LineNumber], $[ColumnNumber] 
				for specifying the grep expression.</span></font></div>
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				Parse Traceback </span></font></div>
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				Parse TraceBack and Syntax Errors from Python output and put it 
				in the Messages Window.</span></font></div>
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				Capture Output</span></font></div>
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				Capture command line output and place it in the Output Window</span></font></div>
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				Give the user the opportunity to terminate the External&nbsp; tool 
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				The Environment tab in tool properties allows you to run the external&nbsp; 
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>parameters</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101"> 
	(Shift+Ctrl+P) and modifiers (Shft+Ctrl+M) are available when specifying the 
	Application, the Parameters and the Working directory.</span></font></div>
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	<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">A few external 
	tools that demonstrate the possibilities opened by this feature of PyScripter 
	are offered by default:</span></font></div>
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	help (Shows the PythonWin help file)</span></font></div>
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	Interpreter (Runs a separate python shell)</span></font></div>
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	Prompt (starts a console)</span></font></div>
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	Selection (a python one-liner that demonstrates the use of Standard Input and 
	Standard Output options)</span></font></div>
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	(profiles the active python script using the standard Python profile module)</span></font></div>
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	- python source code checking tool (</span></font><a href="http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff"><u>http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint</u></span></font></a><font color="#010101" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: #010101">)</span></font></div>
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	Search and Replace (using re.sub)</span></font></div>
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